Java EE (5) -- Java EE 6 JavaServer Faces Developer Certified Expert

Section 1: Essentials of JSF2.0

• Identify the features of JSF such as Facelets, BookMarkable View, AJAX support and the benefits they bring in
• Identify the life cycle stages of JSF, flow of request processing, and purpose of FacesContext
• Design XHTML pages using JSF HTML tag library and demonstrate usage of JSF implicit objects
• Develop and associate model components with views using CDI Named beans and identify the advantages of CDI Named beans over Managed Bean
• Manage user and application state using various scopes like flash, conversation, application, request, and session
• Implement internationalization/Localization using resource bundle and Locale class

Section  2: JSF Navigation Model

• Design JSF pages with static and dynamic implicit navigation
• Configure faces-config.xml to implement navigation rules including conditional and redirection
• Design bookmarkable views

Section 3: Data Conversion and Validation model

• Implement data conversion model using JSF standard converters
• Create, configure, and use custom converters
• Identify the best suited standard validator and implement it in a given JSF application
• Create, configure, and use custom validators
• Describe the usage of bean validation

Section 4: Event Handling

• Use CDI Named bean in a JSF application to handle action and valuechange events
• Create and implement listeners to handle events
• Develop JSF application that handle life cycle events
• Implement asynchronous events using AJAX

Section 5:  Data table and Composite Components

• Design a DataTable with header and footer to populate and manipulate data from various components like Array, List, ResultSet, DataModel and describe the differences between <f:dataTable> and <ui:repeat/>
• Implement composite components in JSF application and enhance it using AJAX
• Implement templates in a JSF application and describe the differences between <ui:composition/> and <ui:decorate/>

Section 6: Custom Components

• Identify when and how to use custom components and custom renderers.
• Enhance JSF application using HTML5 components

Section 7: Security

• Configure security for JSF application using authorization and authentication techniques

Section 8: Test, Package, and Deploy a web application

• Implement efficient error handling and debugging techniques in a JSF application
• Configure and deploy a JSF application